Affordable housing is a basic human need and rental assistance is proven to make housing more affordable. But a House committee recently passed a bill that could result in about 411,000 fewer ...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is overwhelming its local offices by forcing millions more people to seek in-person ...

The Trump Administration has been engaging in a wholesale attack on Congress’s spending power by refusing to provide legally ...

No one should be forced to choose between taking care of their health or paying for other basic needs, like food or utilities ...

Wyoming lawmakers enacted a sweeping 25 percent property tax cut this year for homes valued up to $1 million. But the legislation passed without any plan to replace the critical funding it will ...

The fiscal year 2026 Agriculture appropriations bill recently approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee includes full funding for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, ...

Funding for programs structured as block grants tends to shrink significantly over time, an investigation of several decades ...

A proposal by the Trump Administration to cut off rental assistance after two years even if participants still can’t afford ...

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President Trump’s proposal to rescind $9.4 billion in previously approved spending, which the Senate is expected to vote on this week, is a bad idea for several reasons, as noted in a recent ...

Iowa lawmakers have approved a new state budget that lays bare the growing cost of the state’s tax-cut agenda: to balance the books, they’re now planning to use over $900 million in state reserves to ...